Sr Product Designer, Growth & Experimentation

Yahoo is a leading company providing the ultimate consumer inbox experience with Yahoo Mail, which serves hundreds of millions of users. They are seeking a Senior Product Designer to join the Growth & Experimentation team, responsible for designing experiences that drive user acquisition, activation, and engagement across various platforms. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, leading design strategy, and utilizing AI-driven efficiencies in the design process.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design strategy across high-leverage growth surfaces (onboarding flows, engagement loops, lifecycle nudges, and habit systems) to drive measurable impact on activation and retention
• Translate growth strategy into clear experience direction by exploring and pressure-testing design solutions in partnership with Product, Engineering, and Data teams
• Use qualitative and quantitative insights to identify opportunities across growth surfaces, iterating on experiments to learn quickly and improve core business metrics
• Contribute to Yahoo Mail’s design system by creating and refining growth-related patterns that support scalable, reusable solutions
• Mentor other designers and facilitate critiques to resolve ambiguity and align on strategic direction across the business area
• Identify and implement AI-driven efficiencies in the ideation and design-to-engineering workflow, replacing repetitive manual tasks with automated or AI-assisted prototyping cycles
• Maintain a solutions-oriented mindset, proactively suggesting AI-driven improvements to the team’s creative process and experimentation velocity

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience designing consumer web and/or mobile products at scale, with a proven track record leading growth, onboarding, or experimentation programs
• Strong portfolio demonstrating user-centered product thinking, polished visual craft, and thoughtful interaction design for complex ecosystems
• Experience utilizing AI-powered design tools and generative workflows to accelerate exploration, prototyping, and asset generation
• Demonstrated experience working on growth surfaces (onboarding, notifications, engagement loops) with a track record of shipping experiments that drove measurable DAU or engagement impact
• Ability to own the quality bar for AI-assisted design work, ensuring high standards for craft and usability are maintained
• Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Cursor, Claude code, Claude design etc) to communicate concepts, flows, and specifications